Or perhaps he's testing the adage, "absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Absence? ABSENCE? I always thought it was absinthe, which didn't necessarily make my heart grow fonder but did have all sorts of other interesting effects.
Come to think of it, Uncle Jim, who used to use that phrase a lot, had a lisp.
5,566 posted on 11/07/2016 9:38:58 AM PST by ArGee
(USA, we hardly knew ye!)